Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
CHAPTER Mi.
HOW SIZE BECAME AWARE OF 1T.

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Trim had no money in her pocket. She
had started from home with five pounds
which her father had given her.
Although your husband he rich, Trip,
Dick had said, still it's just as well you
should have something of your own, ana
not have 10 ask him for every tritie you
may need. And. Trip if ever you want
aught, and are shy of asking him, I'm your
did. in ~velveteen and CATERS. and Nv good
wages, and the disposal of some OF the
zane rs a ~perquiSite, and can put away a
pound OF two and You must ask me AT
any time should You want money unbe-
known To YOUR grand husband IN broad
cloth and silk hats
Now this five pounds was gone. 1t had
been given to Trip in a note, not IN gold
She had not changed il, she had had no oc-
casion, no opportunity, tn change II; ana
one dly-it wa the very day after her
marriage-Mr. Beaufort borrowed 1t oil
her.
She did not like at once to remind him
OF the money, though he had asked the
lnn for ten minutes 10 pay for Goals hnt,
when a week passed and nothing was said
OF the five pounds. she ventured tlmldly
To recall it to AlSernon. lie laughed
NV dear Trip, what eau you want money
for nav for everything. Gou have no
bills, YOU buv nothing. Ask me for any
thing you want, and yOu shall have IT.
81 ask for the five pounds back she
said with some spirit.
That" said he putting his hand IN
his pocket and drawing forth some silver,
that is not possible Just now; have not
been IN the hank and drawn any money
ont | have only seven and six in silver,
tcnpence in copper, and thirty shilllngS ID
gold %,
.sTbcn let me have the thirty shillinSS'
''My precious Trip-what for? 1t will
force me tn go to-day, which will be most
i~nconvenient, to town, to my bankers.
'.Tbeu the seven and six on account.
THAT / want for the baker, who IL de
handing his account. We have had pound
cakes as well as bread, and tea cake, too.
Then give methe tenpence in copPers. y
Il must buy some stamps; l am run u
of queens heads
THAT Is precisely what ! want money
for" said Trip, testify. Il have neither
naper nor envelopes nor stamps. | have
nothing tn do with my time; | want TO
write letters go,
DO vou?', asked Mr.. Beaufort. with
some SHARPNESS. "Have | not told you
that / will not have letters sent home or
anywhere for a month? Wait till the
months end, and then yOu may write rs
much rs Won like
..Rut why not nowy'
because | will not allow it. Tie was
angry. and an ugly expression came IN bis
face which frightened Trip. Mind what
| have alrt ady said. You diSobey me at
your peril"
Then he left the room.
Instead of crushing her with his threat
eninc words and tone, he had lrritated her.
Trim had been accustomed to have her own
wav all her life a. far rs IT had run, and
cnntrarietv was what she could not endure.
She did not cry: she sat broOding, with
closed Iips and contracted brOws, and .
very angry. rebellious light in her eyes.
She sat twirling her diamond ring on her
pretty, delicate finger, the ring worth, ac-
eording to Mr.. Beaufort, = hundred and
CITY mounds. Had he lied to her about
that ring. As he had lied about the Norway
iourney, and the court in Gloucestershlre,
and the house in Piccadilly? She would
like IN know. She would he guided by
this. This was amatter in which she could
satisfy herself; and, of course, there was
still inst n possibility that he was really
prevented from crossing tO Norway rs pro-
DoSed. that he had some property IN
GIoueesterShire, and a house undergoing
repairs in Piccadilly.
10 she resolved to put this matter TO
test. a crucial test, and act according As 1t
ave reply. If Mr.. Beaufort had been false
in this, he was false in everything. She
UOuId write to her father, tell him every
thing. and beg him to some to London and
come to an explanation with her husband.
She was then without any shoes on her
feet. she supposed they were below IN the
hack kitchen. The maid, Nelly, had not
brought them mp, and she had taken them
down overnight or early in the morning to
clean.
So. in her stocking sOleS, she stole 10 the
head of the kitchen stairs, not to call the
sulky Nelly. but to fetch them for herself.
She heard her hnSbund and the servant
talking together in q log voice In the
kitchen; this angered her. Her httls smell
of a left ear was burning. They were
talking about her. He had been s. uniafS
10 her that she excused herself for being
underhand with him. She crept TO the
bottom Of the stone steps TO listen.
Il say you're q fool, said the maid
Whatever can have possessed youto bring
this wax doll into the house TO rain rs all:
81 could not help myself, she is 80 con-
foundedly pretty. She bewildered me,
and her mother threw her Mt my head
''You are old enough to know better"
prowled Nelly, IF twas yourself alone.
were endangered You might go the whole